Evolution places little emphasis on veridical perception.

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• Evolution is more intelligent than we realised.claim0.830
  Watson's reinterpretation of formal equivalence between evolution and learning, beyond random variation framework.
• Evolution is more intelligent than we realised, equivalent to connectionist learningclaim0.804
  Interpretive stance that the formal equivalence implies cognitive capabilities in evolution
• Evolution was using developmental bioelectricity long before neurons and muscles appeared, to solve the problem of creating and repairing complex bodies.claim0.792
  Claim about the primacy of bioelectric morphogenesis.
• Biology's robustness, open-endedness, evolvability, and unique complexity likely depend on the fact that evolution works with an agential material.claim0.791
  Central claim linking life's properties to the inherent competencies of its material substrate.
• Sentience assessment should seek deep invariants across possible minds, not arbitrary criteria tied to evolution on Earthclaim0.788
  Core normative claim: frameworks must identify fundamental properties of sentience independent of phylogenetic accident or familiar substrates.
• The truly surprising thing about evolution is not how it makes individuals better adapted to their environment, but how it makes individuals.concept0.785
  Load-bearing quote highlighting the puzzle of evolutionary individuality
• "[W]e must confess that perception, and what depends upon it, is inexplicable in terms of mechanical reasons... we will find only parts that push one another, and we will never find anything to explain a perception."quote0.784
  Load-bearing quote from Monadology §17 providing earliest clear statement of the Hard Problem
• Evolution actually searches not only genotype space but a more tractable space of behavior-shaping signals that exploit cellular intelligence.claim0.781
  Central thesis of the paper.